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"Your facts are incorrect in part.
Many states have amended their Constitutions subsequent to Roemer v. Evans to prohibit gay marriage.
The gay marriage movement's legal strategy thus far has been not to challenge these amendments on U.S...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by arianell
12 days ago
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"If we have to take Knocked Up seriously (do we?), I still think people are getting it wrong.
First, in the logic of the movie, Heigl ins't supposed some kind of uberfraulein. In important ways she's just as much a loser as the Seth Rogen..." [
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12 days ago
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"If you can swing it, resolve your divorce, child custody and child care arrangements fully before you start working. First impressions matter tremendously and you are unlikely to leave a positive first impression unless you can give a full emotional..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by pointystick
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"Indexes are the intellectual property of their managers / sponsors. The "Dow Jones" of the Dow Jones 30 index and the "S&P" of the S&P 500 aren't just for show.
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rafaelloello
Last month
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"The GSEs are not without fault:
(1) Rapidly increased the conforming loan limit -- the maximum size of loan they would buy or guarantee. While we talk a lot about the more abusive mortgage product, the increasing size of the baseline..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by holgate, thisjax
Last month
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"You need to get a better story from your sister as to exactly what the police said they would, and would not, do, and what happened if and when they did anything.
If the police really blew her off, that is completely unacceptable. These aren't..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by missmagenta
Last month
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"If you fear a disaster, being debt-free is the last thing you should be focused on. For worse-case planning cash is king. (For worst-case planning you want to have gold, weapons, and friends in foreign consulates, but that's another thread.)
You..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Nickel, salvia, geoff., hwyengr
Last month
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"Pretty weak stuff, that Times piece. The Times supports the Obama campaign not be directly influencing voters -- no swing voters actually read it -- but by trying to create pro-Obama story-lines for the television news that swing voters do see...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Slap Factory
2 months ago
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"Writers and writer-producers are paid a cash fee per original episode by the production company. In union productions, the minimum writer fees are set by collective bargaining agreements, but most writers are paid in excess of that amount per..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by batgrlHG, safetyfork
2 months ago
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"Sadly, the (American) legal academy disfavors this kind of speculative writing. The actual legal system can't deal with any that isn't a case in actual controversy, and this tends to influence what law reviews deem to be publishable.
I've..." [
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2 months ago
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"If you don't believe me about deposit volume, check out the FDIC site. Be sure to enter each of your town's zip codes if it has more than one." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yohko
2 months ago
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"Obviously, conservatives do fine on the dating scene as a general proposition.
However, they (not surprisingly) do quite poorly among the hip, urban, arty women set ... who are just about the most liberal group one could imagine, and usually..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Phalene
2 months ago
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"I don't want to pile on, except to note that how weird it is to assume that the world is coming to end as a result of road-to-hell behaviors which were themselves quick adaptations to new conditions, and then not to assume that the new challenges..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by rusty, rodii, xil, decoherence
2 months ago
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"A great answer from dhartung, and, to add to it: the point of training for crisis reactions is to enable people to react in real crises with the calm and focus with which they react to (known as such) exercises and simulations. This how you get..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by orrnyereg
2 months ago
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"Given that Fortune 500 companies regularly flop out on protecting personal information, do you really want to give literally every piece of your personal information to some web-based company?
Name change on marriage is one of the easiest things..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Araucaria
2 months ago
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"For everyone who rains contempt upon all the bad, stupid, pathetic scam attempts out there, please remember that they serve a very important auxiliary function: they create marks for the good scams. Good scams rely upon your confidence, and what..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Dec One, Greg Nog, peacheater
3 months ago
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"The "just say no" approach isn't a good one. For some people, under some circumstances, traditional life insurance can be a valuable product for tax minimization and estate planning.
However, you are not likely to be among those..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bengilbert
3 months ago
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"It's a 19th century fiction convention which (in its original form) was intended to create a sense of verisimilitude. It was used to obscure names to create the suggestion the character was or could be a real person (who couldn't be outed) and was..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by the luke parker fiasco, sveskemus
3 months ago
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"Hipster is a way of being cool, that's all.
And like all ways of being cool, it is exclusive. You have know / do / look / be some way that most people cannot.
The base of the hatred of hipsters is simply distaste for exclusion, just like any..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by ntartifex, jrichards, kigpig, vsync
3 months ago
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"Hersh gets great scoops and he gets played by sources. Nothing inconsistent, or even unusual about that: it's how business is done in DC.
It's actually not surprising at this state of the game for people either to gravely (and potentially..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Student of Man
3 months ago
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"For finding, Indeed.com is great: it aggregates all the big universal job boards and most (although not all) of the major specialty boards. The key to using it effectively is establishing daily keyword search agents in many different permutations of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by luckyveronica
3 months ago
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"The audacity of Chinese go to Africa to sell the goods in which it has comparative advantage and buy the goods for which Africans have for comparative advantage.
How could the Chinese not have learned the lesson of the NGOs that Africa is exempt..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by yeloson, infini, nasreddin
3 months ago
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"WordPerfect has held on to the extent it has (and I think you overstate that extent, based upon the prevalence of Word documents I get from law firms) because in principle one never sits down to draft an agreement or pleading from a clean sheet of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by gjc
4 months ago
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"You needed a lawyer the first time you talked to the company's lawyer -- who wasn't representing you, and was taking notes that in all likelihood will be handed over to the SEC and any other law enforcement agency that asks.
You now really need a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Cricket
4 months ago
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"6'2" and 200 pounds are basically ideal proportions in terms of standard business attire (if not for overstyled euro slimsuits), and a longer torso is one of the two basic fitting issues (the other being sloping or narrow shoulders) for..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rossination
4 months ago
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"The whole point of the power of attorney is that you can sign in your grandmother's name -- so she takes the loan and not you. Similarly, it gives you the ability to write checks on her bank account, etc.
A reverse mortgage isn't a bad idea in..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by By The Grace of God
4 months ago
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"Don't go too far in the other direction. People do fulfill emotional needs their partners can't provide for on their own and do do practical things for their partners (and for others to whom their partners are obliged) that their partners can't do,..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by elisynn, herbaliser, chicainthecity
4 months ago
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"While you shouldn't ignore it, there may not be much you can do to keep from occasionally recurring.
The basic problem is that there isn't one collector or one bad debt -- there are many of each. Every time your same-name-deadbeat defaults on a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Lucinda
5 months ago
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"Insurance like this is very unlikely to be worthwhile -- the premiums will be massive relative to the benefits, or the exclusions so broad as to make few claims allowed.
This isn't a conspiracy: any policy like this is going to suffer so..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kwantsar
5 months ago
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"You need to distinguish economics from ideology.
While there many different ideologies which apply and misapply economics, there is surprisingly little partisanship among economists when they do economics. Agreement tends to be widespread on..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ecmendenhall
5 months ago
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"The most important thing to remember is that in terms of outcomes, there is fairly little to distinguish the "next eight" law schools, and, as Delmoi implies, you must apply to all of them -- NYU and Columbia, of course, but also Michigan,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by roomwithaview
5 months ago
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"If by "competitive" you mean a scholarship of $25,000 or $30,000 a year, than by all means go unless you're giving up some great opportunities to do so. St. John's is an entirely respectable law school whose graduates immediately (if they..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by sondrialiac, fructose
5 months ago
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"You should not bail. With the low miles you drive, your energy and (potentially) depreciation savings from swapping to a more efficient car will never make up the cost of buying the new car and making your Explorer loan whole.
The environmental..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by CorporateHippy
5 months ago
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"Unless there's some kind of "fun in New York" angle here, your sister should ask for at least $800 a week. She simply breaks the mold on virtually every dimension. (One regularly pays $650 a week for someone with good references and a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hulahulagirl
5 months ago
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"This is true in the U.S.:
It is perfect legal for you to use any name you wish, so long as you have no intent to defraud. Do so consistently for long enough and the law recognizes that your new name is your real name -- this is "common..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Dreamcast, special-k, lunachic
6 months ago
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"Core vs. non-core in CPI has always made plenty of sense. Because sustained changes in food and energy costs should feed back into the prices on the core basket, core didn't so much ignore food and energy as mute their volatility.
If that..." [
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6 months ago
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"Just want to second what Your Time Machine says, and amplify it: not just the resume, but many other aspects, of the job search process are different in other countries, and you need to learn how to do as the Romans if you want to get a job in Rome..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Your Time Machine Sucks
7 months ago
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"The best way to justify whatever you are doing, if you feel you must justify it, is in affirmative terms.
Nobody but a jerk objects to the propositions "I'm staying in Ithaca because I've got a great job" or "I'm moving to Chicago..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jejune
7 months ago
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"You shouldn't worry too much.
Free economies have amazingly strong self-correction mechanisms. As nature abhors a vacuum, economies abhor idle capital and labor, and will quickly put it back to work because it will always be worth more than..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Kadin2048, Rafaelloello
7 months ago
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"Important: it's not exactly an egalitarian decision. A man decides not to have (biological) children for the time being, a woman decides forever.
I see so many guys of a certain age pushing around strollers that I have to wonder how many have..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yohko
8 months ago
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"The author projects a significant shift in housing preference from single-family residences to high-density urban living. This reduced demand, he supposes, will permit a lot of nice suburbs to slip into slum status as property owners have no choice..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Kadin2048, thisjax, tippiedog, geoff.
8 months ago
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"Suedehead, the patronizing (racist?) motivation you suggest for cross-cultural adoption can't drive more than a trivial percentage of adoptions. If there's a political component to some adoptions, it's far more likely to be the "it's a crowded..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tractorfeed, Goofyy
10 months ago
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"Wood -- it can't rotate. As long as the state primaries and caucuses are used to select delegates Iowa and New Hampshire will go first by force of their own laws. 50% delegate penalties are about the only tool that the parties could use to try to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by amberglow
10 months ago
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"A sequential primary and caucus system will always have Iowa and New Hampshire first because by their respective laws they will always go first, even if that means Halloween of the prior year.
Human nature and media narrative gives the first..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Iridic, Mick
10 months ago
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"According to the article the AFL-CIO and other labor groups support the rule, as a means to preserve the benefits of younger workers. Hardly a right-wing conspiracy.
Anyway, people who think that corporations abandoning health plans will lead to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kwantsar
10 months ago
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"Recent SEC rules, which have been struck down by one Federal court but which aren't quite dead yet, require most hedge funds to go through a quite onerous registration process, and have key personnel meet a number of qualifications.
Absent those..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by fourstar, Phred182
10 months ago
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"It's important to note though that any carbon dioxide rules from this (or a future) administration without further Congressional authorization are going to have to follow the rather elaborate rule-making procedures in the EPA. Elaborate scientific..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by russilwvong, wfrgms
11 months ago
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"Rail doesn't need help. Even in the US, most places where job and housing patterns are suitable to some form of rail, that form of rail is present, vital, popular, and subsidized by generous general-fund grants. There are far more unsuitable and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kadin2048
Last year
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"For a less grim point of view, you could read census abstracts from 1900 or 1910, and see exactly how people lived before all this big bad technology came around. Or you could go a local cemetary and stroll around the 1900 or 1910 burials and see..." [
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